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Dear Prof. Martin - I don't support Russia's actions in Crimea, either, but if you really think "nobody can understand why Putin took this risk," you shouldn't be a professor of anything.
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I mean, I'm kind of amazed at how poorly she understands this situation. The Ukrainian military is "holding"? Is she under the impression that it has been fighting pitched battles with the Russian army? No, Prof. Martin, the Ukrainian military is staying as far away from this situation as it possibly can, because its leaders do not want it to fragment and end up in a civil war against itself.
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Mar 7, 2014 05:29
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Amused to Death posted:I don't know, I agree with her. It is kind of mystery, he gets a shot term boost but in the long run it's an irrational and terrible decision to make that's just going to harm Russia. Aside from its word being damaged in the world stage, it's just going to more quickly drive the nations around it into really wanting to get into NATO or other alliances. The problem is, it's Russia. Their sense of what is rational doesn't match ours 100%. Prestige issues like retaking a piece of land that's traditionally been theirs matter more to them than they might to us. Reasserting themselves as a geopolitical global power is a huge priority. They have long considered themselves the Eastern pole of military clout in Christendom, the heir to Byzantium, and by God, they're going to show it. In the long run they're not going to be any less loved or trusted on the world stage than they are because of this. They may be more feared, though, and that's never been a negative in the Russian political mind.
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Mar 7, 2014 07:01
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comes along bort posted:It's less about being able to exert direct influence than it is deligitimizing Ukraine as it goes through the decades long slog of trying to join the EU. Same poo poo in Georgia and Moldova. These are two sides of the same coin, though. Russia has always wanted buffer states around it so it can break its long tradition of getting overrun every century. I think Kennan oversimplified when he said that Russia only has either vassals or enemies, but the broader strokes of his maxim definitely apply here.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:27
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He needs to take a page from one of my all-time favorite Onion articles.
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Mar 8, 2014 01:04
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Fat Lowtax posted:With how much time Internet Hashtag Activists spend online/on Twitter and with how easy the original material was to find, there's no way they (meaning a good number of #CancelColbert people, including Suey Park and almost anyone else with SJ Twitter-cachet - they literally tweet all day) didn't discover that the joke was 100% at the expense of Dan Snyder. And they doubled down. They still are. I find that fascinating, like so many other things I do not understand. I agree with this. I think Park probably had a kneejerk reaction to reading the tweet out of context, and then her ego basically caused her to ante up on the outrage. I can understand feeling offended by the joke, even in context, but come on. "Cancel Colbert?" gently caress you, Suey - it's people like you who give social justice activists a bad name.
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Mar 28, 2014 20:49
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Chinatown posted:Here's the thing; no one gives a poo poo about "internet activists" outside of the context of a mass uprising. Really. Fixed that for you, budday.
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Mar 30, 2014 08:33
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Drifter posted:I'm changin' the world, Ma! This would actually be a really funny hashtag.
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Mar 30, 2014 09:03
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Oh this is literally the greatest thing. This makes me so happy.
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Apr 1, 2014 04:32
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Suey Park is keeping it classy on Twitter: "Hey really need to crash, but @StephenAtHome--can you please use some satire to force your trolls off me? It's getting old...like you."
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Apr 1, 2014 04:50
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bobkatt013 posted:You mean like saying stop bothering her? Suey Park posted:It's getting old...like you."
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Apr 1, 2014 04:58
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In his farewell address. I get the impression that you think presidents are considerably less constrained than they actually are.
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Apr 1, 2014 05:52
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Nooooo, I'm under the impression that political favors and lobbying are *new* things in a Capitalist Democracy. It sounds to me like you think those are the only constraints on a president, though. e: I mean, not to mention the fact that the guy was a career soldier - not exactly a personality that you'd expect to say something groundbreaking. So I think you're being a little dumb for condemning Eisenhower for not saying something earlier. Majorian fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 07:09
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haveblue posted:It wouldn't be the first time they had someone on for a bit that was both a one-note joke and a plug (see Jeff Goldblum). Or Charlie Rose, for that matter. That was perhaps my favorite cameo Colbert's ever had on. 
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Oh FFS...when asked what book she was reading on Twitter, Suey's answer should have been obvious to all of us:quote:@britt_turtle The cross and the lynching tree by james cone.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:36
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haveblue posted:The Jon Daily Show Jon Daly does need his own show, yes.
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Apr 3, 2014 09:04
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skaboomizzy posted:That iPhone commercial with "Gigantic" is getting funnier to me every time since I looked up the lyrics to the song. I laughed so hard when I first saw those commercials, because until they started singing the lyrics, I couldn't tell what it was a cover of. All I knew was that it looked entirely too precious and pretentious to be allowed on TV, especially the annoying vocalist going "AaaaAAAaaaa~~~" ethereally at the beginning. It sounded like something Gwyneth Paltrow would post on goop, her godawful website. And then I recognized the chorus, and oh how I laughed.
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May 2, 2014 04:53
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You're just saying that because he's black.
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May 2, 2014 05:55
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I hope Ellen Page gets more to do in this one. I felt like she was pretty horribly wasted in the third movie. (although obviously that movie made a lot more mistakes than just that one)
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May 9, 2014 16:47
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This is the adorablest nun. e: Seriously, if this lady doesn't make you believe in God...
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May 14, 2014 04:38
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gently caress Columbus for falling for that poo poo. No excuse.
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May 14, 2014 04:45
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I have no problem with Philadelphia, but there are few demographics that I hold in more contempt than Philly sports fans, so this is music to my ears.
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May 21, 2014 04:18
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haveblue posted:It was some ignorant person demonstrating his complete lack of knowledge of the mechanics of anal sex. It reminds me of those weird clips of the Ugandan lawmaker talking about how homosexuals like to eat "doo-doo." His words, not mine.
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May 21, 2014 04:33
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How has Ham Rove not made a miraculous return? Besides the fact that they ate him, of course. e: Rhonne posted:Conservatives always go to the weirdest fetishes when trying to insult homosexuality. LOL, it's funny you should say this, and then like a minute later Colbert is screaming "gay porn" at his crotch.
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May 21, 2014 04:38
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Is that his son?
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May 23, 2014 04:49
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raditts posted:You guys never knew that Ronald Reagan's son is pretty much the political opposite of his father? He's certainly never made it a secret. Yeah, he's a good dude overall. It's one of the things where, even though I'm not an atheist, I like what his organization stands for, ie: separation of church and state, making the religious right cry, etc. It helps that he's an outspoken atheist who's not a dick about it.
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May 23, 2014 05:22
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It's been a few days since the interview, but good God, Bill Maher was insufferable. I know he's a stupid piece of poo poo, but he was particularly stupid this time around. His rant on Obama being a closet atheist is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
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comes along bort posted:Obama probably is at least agnostic though His writings and statements on the matter really strongly suggest that he's a true believer. I mean, he could be lying, but I don't think we can assume that without evidence. Also, Hernant Mehta has a good blog post on why Maher's claim is stupid: quote:The unstated implication from Maher’s perspective is that Obama is too smart to be religious… which is an insult to, well, all the smart people out there who also happen to be religious. His intelligence and academic pedigree is hardly a reason to just assume he’s non-religious. It’s just wishful thinking. Majorian fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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JT Jag posted:Of Islam. Well, now, I just said he wasn't an atheist, not that he's a Christian... 
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Jun 27, 2014 08:46
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Astro Nut posted:Obama made a strong bit of reaffirming his faith in order to try and ward off the idiots who claimed he was a Muslim (which somehow is unacceptable for the President of what is supposed to be a secular nation?), but otherwise I would say generally falls in the 'believer, but doesn't let it blindly lead him' category. This. I think people like Maher easily forget that you don't have to be George W. Bush to be a theist.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:27
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Why are Republicans pushing the idea of going back into Iraq? Is there growing support among the American people to get back in there? Nope, most Americans are pretty strongly against it. They feel they have to try to salvage the neoconservative legacy as best they can, which is adorable, because, you know. Tough to salvage that which was unsalvageable from the get-go.
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VagueRant posted:I think Bill Maher is funny and makes a lot of good points despite disagreeing massively with him on a few issues...But I listen to Real Time in podcast format from HBO's site and I had genuinely forgotten how punchably smug his face was. Yeah, and it's especially grating when he's just completely pulling things out of his rear end like that. I think it's ridiculous that atheists are such a maligned demographic in the US, but at the same time, shitheads like Maher really don't help.
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VagueRant posted:You seem a little defensive about this, Majorian. Sorry, I'm just tired of US politics being so focused on "religious versus non-religious." It really gets under my skin when someone like me who believes in God gets lumped in with the Religious Right - or when people like Maher suggest that I'm not welcome among smart, educated people with progressive political leanings.
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I'm usually pretty good about that, but you know how it is. You hear it enough times, occasionally it gets to you. Anyway, sorry for the derail - enough histrionics from me.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Now, to be fair, Marvel's not alone in this whole "racial diversification" thing. Hell, DC's just brought Wally West back... as an at-risk African American teen with a juvenile record. At least the black man didn't die first in this one. (that would be white Wally West)
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Jul 17, 2014 05:03
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LeafyOrb posted:To be honest it's kind of a lazy way to be more inclusive. Instead of making new heroes who aren't white guys they just change the old ones even though everyone knows the old hero is going to come back eventually. Yeah, the female Thor in particular bothers me. I wouldn't have any problem with a female Captain America or Iron Man or whatever (perhaps even some form of "She-Hulk"?). But Thor is a character who exists outside of Marvel comics, and the original mythology surrounding him doesn't exactly leave much room for him to be female. I would say they should start doing cool things with Sif or Freyja, but as you indicate, that would take more effort than just gender-swapping someone who really shouldn't ever be gender-swapped.
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haveblue posted:They seem to be claiming that "Thor" is now a transferrable title rather than the character's actual name (since the original Thor will still be around), which they've never done at any of the other times someone else ended up with the hammer, costume, and powers. Fuuuuuck, that sometimes works with other characters, but it's taking it too far to do it with Thor. ChaosSamusX posted:To an extent this is true, but aren't the Asgardians in the Thor universe the people the Norse gods were based on after they went down to Earth (meaning the characters in Thor aren't quite the characters from Norse mythology)? Yeah, but still - I tend to see Thor's ridiculously puffed-up masculinity as one of the character's defining traits. It's as if DC made a "Wonder Man" character (yes, I know Marvel has one of their own) who was a gender-swapped Wonder Woman, in that it just loses its meaning when you stretch it too far. Majorian fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 17, 2014 |
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Soylentbits posted:It seems generally more effective though. Most new heroes don't last and changing legacy characters at least seems to give them a shot at sticking around. Besides nobody wants new characters in films so it's the fastest possible way to get comic movie diversification. I honestly am not seeing how this gives them a better shot at sticking around, or it trickling into movie casting for that matter. As much as I like John Stewart, Hal Jordan is always going to be way better known as Green Lantern. I'm not holding my breath at seeing Stewart as GL in any upcoming movies.
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I don't care what anybody says, Aubrey Plaza's brattiness only makes her hotter.
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sleepingbuddha posted:Who says anything bad about her? She is so drat adorable. Shitlords who desperately try to stay ahead of trends in an unsuccessful attempt to be cool. (ie: hipsters, but not hot female ones like she plays)
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